PERSONAL FINANCE, ELEVATED.
I like to joke that credit cards are my best friend. It’s a known thing in my circle. So much so, that for my office Christmas party my coworker ignored the wish list I sent him and bought me a credit card holder instead. Many of the luxe strategies I talk about involve working your […]
When we were in Hawaii this spring, my mom bought a $12 coconut from a “local fruit stand.” Yeah, the rest of the family teased her for it the entire week. Especially since a few days later she discovered another one for only $5. When most people think of Hawaii, they think “expensive.” And they […]
Earlier this week I came across this post on the wedding traditions people skipped. The comments were addicting. I’ll play along, I thought, mentally making a list of conventions my fiancé and I are doing without. But then the list started to get long, so I thought, why AM I deciding to forgo all these […]
Updated: August 6, 2017 Frugality and designer clothes. Sounds like an oxymoron, right? But what if I told you that there are ways to rock designer clothes without wrecking your budget? Tell me if any of this sounds familiar: you’re flipping through Vogue and see a super cute jacket. But then your heart plummets: the […]
Compared to today’s parenting ideals, my mom broke every rule in the book, whether she knew it or not. She was illiterate, so there were no books in the house. She didn’t believe in babysitters, and left my sister and me home alone when we were as young as four and six. She didn’t know […]
I like my clothes the way I like my stocks: I buy and hold. Case in point: I’ve had these A.P.C. jeans for 8 years. Eventually, a hole appeared behind the left knee. And then the crotch blew out. This is when most people would throw the jeans away. But I patched them instead. When […]
A few weeks ago my mom and I were on the couch watching “Say Yes to the Dress.” My mom marvelled at the dress budgets that flashed on the TV screen, starting at $3,000, and increasing comically as the show progressed. But the prices didn’t seem real, especially since someone else was going to be […]